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Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys

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Speaker 1: training live from the Dallas Cowboys World headlours at the

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Speaker 1: Star in Priscillo, Live says, and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback,

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Speaker 1: heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's it is

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Speaker 1: the final regular season version of Talking Cowboys of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. Welcome into twenty twenty, or actually I guess

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Speaker 1: it was twenty twenty, but now it's twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: But either way, we're mixed, matched and mumbled because the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys season came to a close yesterday twenty three to nineteen,

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Speaker 1: a week seventeen loss the New York Giants. And if

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Speaker 1: you're frustrated Cowboys Nation, we're right there with you, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna break things down about what happened to the

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Speaker 1: Giants and how the Cowboys ended the twenty twenty campaign

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Speaker 1: with a six and ten record. But first let me

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Speaker 1: introduce the crew as always for one final time, at

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Speaker 1: least regular season wise. We'll get into the off season

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Speaker 1: coming up next Monday, but alongside our resident Super Bowl champion,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah stand Back, Cowboys insider Rob Phillips and our professional

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Speaker 1: football analyst Heckma Harrison with you as always. But gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: first off, Happy new year. I haven't seen you guys

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Speaker 1: since twenty twenty. It's kind of crazy to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Except for you, Isaiah, I saw you yesterday, so a

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Speaker 1: little less of a happy new year, buddy, Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: saw me yesterday too. Oh that's true. I did see

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Speaker 1: Rob yesterday as well, but heck happy he forgot about you. Rob,

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Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Happy new year to you, but

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Speaker 1: it wasn't necessarily a happy new year for the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: As I want to spend the first segment kind of

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Speaker 1: breaking down this game. The second segment we're going to

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Speaker 1: kind of look at the biggest needs going into the offseason,

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Speaker 1: and the third segment is going to be kind of

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Speaker 1: a hodgepodge of what happened between Washington and Philly and

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Speaker 1: was that okay or not? And we're gonna kind of

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Speaker 1: talk about a lot of things throughout the course of

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Speaker 1: this show. But let's start with the Cowboys in the Giants, Rob,

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Speaker 1: what did you see yesterday that kind of stuck out

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Speaker 1: to you? Because I felt like after three weeks of

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Speaker 1: getting complimentary football from this football team. It was not

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Speaker 1: so much yesterday. Yeah, heck and I talk just before

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Speaker 1: the show started about how you know, an NFL season

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Speaker 1: is a roller coaster ride and when you get done

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Speaker 1: with it, it's like, Okay, it just stops suddenly when

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Speaker 1: the season's over and go find your parents, like I said,

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Speaker 1: And it's and it's even more so this year where

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Speaker 1: you get off this ride and you're dizzy, because this

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Speaker 1: season was like no other. And to your point, a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys set it after the game, Mike McCarthy

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Speaker 1: said it. The game itself Sunday was a microcosm of

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Speaker 1: the entire season in some ways where rough start, sloppy start,

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Speaker 1: nothing went right, not complimentary football, like you said, second

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Speaker 1: half of the game, like the second half of the season,

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Speaker 1: you kind of get it together, but it doesn't end well.

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Speaker 1: And that's this Cowboys season will be remembered as hopefully

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Speaker 1: the strangest season, the strangest season that we've ever seen,

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Speaker 1: and one that a team that fought through a lot

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Speaker 1: but ultimately wasn't good enough to win games consistently owen

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Speaker 1: six against teams that were winning records. Teams this season.

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Speaker 1: That's that's how it ends. Egma, hey, Rob, I call

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Speaker 1: the emotional stamina this season, right, they get through this season,

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Speaker 1: um man, it was one heck of a year. And

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Speaker 1: to go six and ten and obviously the last game

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Speaker 1: of year that it was. But this game, it was

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Speaker 1: like the ghost of Christmas Pass coming back to visit

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Speaker 1: us on defense, not being able to set the edge,

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Speaker 1: blown coverages in the secondary when you talk about our

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Speaker 1: offensive line, just man New York, the New York Giants

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Speaker 1: beat us up at the line of scrimmage and whether

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Speaker 1: it was missing assignment so whatever it was, if that

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Speaker 1: was the actual call that letting Leonard Williams just come

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Speaker 1: same time, it was just all of those things that

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Speaker 1: we had been seeing over the season that has plagued

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Speaker 1: this team. And look, I know that they fought. They

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure all of Cowboy Nation would echo those

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Speaker 1: these guys, it looked bad yesterday. Yesterday. It was terrible.

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Speaker 1: It was it was. It was embarrassing, it was it

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Speaker 1: and they were like, oh, oh you want to fight, Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we're grabbed this and they just kept antagonizing us.

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Speaker 1: And guess what we were biting on it. We were

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Speaker 1: but we couldn't. We couldn't stop a running nose yesterday. This,

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Speaker 1: Take us out of you know, good position on the field. Um,

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Speaker 1: it had we won, we would be even more angrier today.

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Speaker 1: But I know we're gonna get God's true. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: true now, And I've got an opinion on that as well,

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that, like I said in the

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Speaker 1: third segment, because there is a lot of hypothetical around

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Speaker 1: Was it just that that veil over the eyes of

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Speaker 1: the fact that we played Cincinnati and Philadelphia and won

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Speaker 1: a team that was ready to roll like New York yesterday. No,

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Speaker 1: not at all. We just didn't show up. There's no

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Speaker 1: excuses we just didn't show up. We faced defensive lions

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Speaker 1: I mean we faced some dogs out there now this year.

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Speaker 1: So when we look at this matchup, yeah, it should

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Speaker 1: he throws inaccurately and his feet aren't moving as much.

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Speaker 1: There were times in the game where Andy slid and

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Speaker 1: But I understand that's a conversation for another thing. It's

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Speaker 1: that's what he said afterwards. I thought second half, they

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Speaker 1: But first half, man, you know he had several balls

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Speaker 1: he was sacked six six times, he was hit nine times.

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Speaker 1: So I do think while the Giants from a personnel standpoint,

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Speaker 1: like Isaiah, I agree with you, they faced better fronts

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Speaker 1: of the think them, and then we'll think all the

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Speaker 1: fans coming up here in a little bit because you

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Speaker 1: guys are the ones that make this job fun. And

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Speaker 1: I will continue to say that for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the time because I think it's so much fun interacting

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Speaker 1: with fans. We're gonna thank you guys at the end

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Speaker 1: of the show, but we're gonna thank you right now

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Speaker 1: by talking about what happened yesterday. Kyle Yeoman's Isaiah stand back,

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Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, Heck Moharrison, and man, it was is frustrating

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Speaker 1: from just a performance based standpoint. Yesterday, offense defense, I'll

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Speaker 1: throw up special teams in their special teams kind of

439
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Speaker 1: did their job, but it was it was frustrating from

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Speaker 1: a baseline performance standpoint. But whenever you look at the

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Speaker 1: game management from the coaching staff yesterday, I thought it

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Speaker 1: was one of the more poorly managed games this season. Heck,

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Speaker 1: did you think that same case about the way Mike

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Speaker 1: McCarthy kind of handled some of those situations. And we'll

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Speaker 1: get to that challenge call here at a moment, But

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Speaker 1: what did you think overall? You know, I remember last

447
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Speaker 1: year we always were on Jason Garrett about situational awareness

448
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Speaker 1: and that was one of the pet peeves of the

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Speaker 1: fan base, and it just seemed like it got ugly

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Speaker 1: in this game will so, especially with the pettish challenge

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Speaker 1: and the well, the lack there of a challenge, and

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Speaker 1: it just you know, all of those things combined and

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Speaker 1: when it comes down to a football game and the

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Speaker 1: way that you evaluate it is there are so many

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Speaker 1: other things that happened within a football game that make

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Speaker 1: your demise at the end, you know it realistic, but

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Speaker 1: you know, red zone inefficiency, a lot of those things.

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Speaker 1: The play call and was just, man, it's as bad

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Speaker 1: as I've seen it. But you know, offensive line didn't

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Speaker 1: give us much. But for me, it obviously was the

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Speaker 1: lack of challenging because Spotellian Green Bay Boy, he was

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Speaker 1: quick all the challenge with that dance catch. When he

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Speaker 1: was quick on that challenge that I was like, come on, dude,

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Speaker 1: what you do Mike? And Mike didn't do so and

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Speaker 1: people are definitely upset about it, but I've heard him

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Speaker 1: say that it was a bang bang situation and it

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Speaker 1: just didn't have time to evaluate whether he was going

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Speaker 1: to throw it or not. Bright. Yeah, that's exactly what

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Speaker 1: he said that, and he doubled down on it when

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Speaker 1: he was pressed about not only that call, but you know,

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Speaker 1: he's been questioned about game management stuff since week one.

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Speaker 1: You know, fourth quarter against the Rams, he decided to

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Speaker 1: go for it and throw the CD lamb and they

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Speaker 1: didn't get it instead of kicking a field goal, and

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Speaker 1: they lost the game by three. So you can point

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Speaker 1: to things throughout the season where it didn't go right,

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Speaker 1: and so he's questioned. And obviously, you know, thanksgiving the

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Speaker 1: fake punt that that will go down in history, that

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Speaker 1: one in particular. But ye know, I at first I

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Speaker 1: thought he Pettis had it, and then when Mike Pereira's

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Speaker 1: on the Fox broadcast saying had they challenged it, they

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Speaker 1: probably would have gotten it overturned. It definitely was a

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Speaker 1: questionable call. Now, I understand it's a one score game

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Speaker 1: and you want to preserve your timeouts, but I was

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Speaker 1: surprised he didn't challenge it. And ultimately, look, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're driving at first in goal at the Giant seven

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Speaker 1: inside of two minutes, and instead of kicking a field

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Speaker 1: goal to win the game, you're trying to score touchdown.

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Speaker 1: So it was a huge play in the game, no question. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we hit on disgession at Kyle. I mean, Rogers did

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Speaker 1: a heck of a job kind of recapping the bad

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Speaker 1: decisions that have transpired over the whole year. He's had

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Speaker 1: an issue. I don't know if he was a year

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Speaker 1: off or or he's just trying to instill confidence in

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Speaker 1: his players or what. I'm not sure really what's going on,

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Speaker 1: but that that was one of the many bad decisions

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Speaker 1: that he made this year as a game manager, being

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Speaker 1: the being a guy who gives the okay for plays

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Speaker 1: to go through or flags to come out or not.

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Speaker 1: The point of the matter is he said, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, we had three timeouts and it was a

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Speaker 1: very close game, so obviously those timeouts are precious. Well

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Speaker 1: obviously possessions are precious. Uh you're talking about as it

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Speaker 1: was inconclusive, you know, so I couldn't really tell if

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Speaker 1: he cut it or not. Isn't that why we challenge?

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Speaker 1: Don't we challenge when we can't tell? Um? So, everything,

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Speaker 1: every from my perspective, every reason that he gave as

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Speaker 1: to why he did not challenge, is why he should

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Speaker 1: have challenge. Uh, you know, I was, I was. I

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Speaker 1: was torn a little bit obviously because Pettis is a

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Speaker 1: utub guy, you know. But but aside from that, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, it was it was a close play. It

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Speaker 1: was a close playing. Yes it's a bang bang, but

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Speaker 1: guess what, bang bang throw your flag so that you

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Speaker 1: can get an opportunity to get the ball. But because

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Speaker 1: that was just too important, because those guys got the

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Speaker 1: first down, and obviously what the game change if they

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Speaker 1: don't get that first down to guess what, they're trying

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Speaker 1: to kick something right, so or you know, or punt.

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Speaker 1: Actually they're out of field goal range. They're trying to punt,

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Speaker 1: so big, big opportunity missed. And yes, we can scrutinize

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Speaker 1: him on the back end all day long, but I

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Speaker 1: can truly say, throw the dog on flag. The game

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Speaker 1: is too close. The game was too important for you

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Speaker 1: to decide whether that was a catch or not. So

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Speaker 1: and I thought, you know, I thought Hellman made up

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Speaker 1: a good point on Twitter during the game that you know,

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Speaker 1: college gets it right, College reviews all this stuff, and

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Speaker 1: you don't put the coaches in a position to have

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Speaker 1: to do it. But you know, that's part of the game,

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Speaker 1: that's part of part of the job description. And and

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Speaker 1: when you're on the road, you don't get much help

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Speaker 1: in terms of video replay from the opposing stadium, so

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Speaker 1: you know, that's heck, that's part of it too. But

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Speaker 1: but you gotta you gotta make the decision in the moment,

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Speaker 1: and uh, we'll never know, but I think they certainly

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Speaker 1: would have had a chance to get it reversed. Kind

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Speaker 1: of value. That's what you guys are talking about. And

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Speaker 1: this let me say this. I think I said what

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Speaker 1: you and is the responsibilities incumbent of the position. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's your job to do that when you see something

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Speaker 1: that's you, that drive that catch, right, there's a difference

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Speaker 1: between them a sixty yard field gold or whatever it

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Speaker 1: was going to be at that time. You place your

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Speaker 1: ball club in a really bad position by not challenging.

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Speaker 1: And we talk about the analytics of football and all

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Speaker 1: of that, not going for two and all the situational things.

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Speaker 1: It just felt like yesterday, all of those things failed.

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy. Well, whenever it came down to what Mike

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Speaker 1: McCarthy said after the game in terms of the timeouts

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Speaker 1: being valuable in a low scoring game like that, where

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Speaker 1: I mean your offense is struggling to put points on

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Speaker 1: the board. Aren't points a little bit more valuable than

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Speaker 1: the timeouts? Especially at that point because even if it's

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Speaker 1: a fifty fifty they get it, they don't get it.

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Speaker 1: And I think it was more than fifty percent chance

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys were going to have that call overturned if

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Speaker 1: you would have thrown the challenge flag. I absolutely think

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Speaker 1: it was way more than fifty And even if it

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Speaker 1: was a fifty fifty chance, I think the risk reward

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00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: was much greater throwing that challenge flag. I think if

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Speaker 1: this was Week one, it would be a little bit

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Speaker 1: more of a little bit more of a pass a

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Speaker 1: little bit, not a lot, but a little bit, because

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Speaker 1: you don't know what your team can do. You don't

566
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Speaker 1: know where you're at team wise. You know your team

567
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: struggles in the red zone. You know that, and if

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Speaker 1: any possibility that you could keep that game within a

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Speaker 1: field goal is on the board, you got to figure

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Speaker 1: out how to do it. And that was what that was.

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Speaker 1: That was a chance to keep it within a field

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Speaker 1: goal and it ended up making it a four point

573
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: game and the Cowboys needed a touchdown. Guess what happened.

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Speaker 1: They went down, got into the red zone through an interception,

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Speaker 1: and thus there was the end of the ball game.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just saying at that point, situational awareness you

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Speaker 1: gotta keep it within three points because you know how

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Speaker 1: your offense struggles in the red zone. You're already seeing

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Speaker 1: that your offense has been stagnant against this Giant's defense,

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Speaker 1: and rob they just couldn't figure out a way to

581
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Speaker 1: score points. You got to take advantage of not putting

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Speaker 1: points up on the board. Yeah, and in terms of

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Speaker 1: you know, it's got to be conclusive evidence, right if

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Speaker 1: if it's going to go to review. So but to me,

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00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: it was different than you know, the Wayne Gallman fumble

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Speaker 1: at the end, which you know the season ends on

587
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: a butt recovery. I mean, how fitting is that? Right? Right?

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00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: But like, at least on that one, and that obviously

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00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: went straight to review. But you know, you wouldn't challenge

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00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: that one because if it's challenged, then the officials would

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00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 1: have to determine based on a pile where you can't

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00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: see anything that oh, yeah, the Cowboys got it, and

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00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: and so that that you know, when you're watching that replay,

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Speaker 1: it's like there's to me, anyway, there's a serious question

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00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: of did he trap trap the ball with the ground?

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00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: You know? And so but again it does come down

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Speaker 1: to what's a catch in the NFL. I mean, since

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Speaker 1: the death catch in twenty fifteen, I still don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the officials are going to call,

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Speaker 1: uh play to play a game to game, So there's

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Speaker 1: that at least. My issue fellas with that call, and

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Speaker 1: I know we're probably gonna be done this here in

603
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Speaker 1: the second, But my issue with that call was if

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Speaker 1: that was just a regular first down, I don't challenge.

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00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: I don't challenge regular first down, but a first down

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Speaker 1: that takes them from a punt to a potential field

607
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 1: goal right sounds. That's where you challenge had had it

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Speaker 1: had it been further back, had it been all the

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00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: way back on the thirty or somebody that's twenty or thirty.

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Speaker 1: Guess what, I don't have a problem with you, not

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Speaker 1: so much. Right, I don't go ahead, let them and

612
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: let him have it. Right, we still have a chance

613
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Speaker 1: to play defense if they don't. If this call gets overturned,

614
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: they punted, that is a change of possession. That's where

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Speaker 1: the that's where the weight of this call, where the

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Speaker 1: no call was the no the no throw right, he

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Speaker 1: didn't throw the red flat, That's where the weight of

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Speaker 1: this was at because of the fact he did not

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Speaker 1: challenge he gave them an opportunity to get the first down, right,

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Speaker 1: and not only first down, put them and put points

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Speaker 1: into it. Yeah yeah, but when you get you had

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Speaker 1: a between to get the ball back. You had opportunity

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Speaker 1: to get the ball back. And that's where the s

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00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: why everybody's looking at this so seriously. Yeah, it was, Hey,

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00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: what do you guys think about the I was going

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Speaker 1: to let me yeah, let me go ahead and clarify

627
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: this real quickly. It wasn't a first down on the play.

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Speaker 1: It was third and sixteen, and he gained about twelve, sorry,

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00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: gained about twelve and put them in the field goal

630
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: range for a fifty yard attempt. So if you don't

631
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Speaker 1: gain the twelve, it's a sixty two yard field goal

632
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: versus a fifty yard field goal. And it was nailed

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Speaker 1: from fifty yards out, go ahead, Rob. As to what

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Speaker 1: you were saying, oh, well, speaking of you know, game management,

635
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Speaker 1: I just want to see what you guys thought about

636
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Speaker 1: the two point non two point decision midway through the

637
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: third quarter where it becomes a twenty to fifteen game

638
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: and they elect to kick the extra point instead of

639
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: going for two, and Mike said it was too early

640
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Speaker 1: in the game, And honestly, on that one at the time,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, well, I've watched a lot of football, and

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Speaker 1: to chase the points too early. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: do you guys thought about that one? That that didn't

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Speaker 1: bother me so much? That that didn't that didn't really

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Speaker 1: bother me. What bothered me is when we get down

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Speaker 1: That bothers me because we're obviously having a problem blocking

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Speaker 1: And I know Zeke wasn't running, he was really playing hurt.

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Speaker 1: But you know, he's a good blocker, you know, so

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Speaker 1: so why do we take him out of that situation?

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Speaker 1: And then, oh, by the way, the guy who's been

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Speaker 1: sacking us all day, how about we just don't block him? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, none,

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Speaker 1: None of that worked for us, man, And hope just

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Speaker 1: isn't a strategy and hoping that somebody realizes that, oh

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Speaker 1: two now? We've become accustomed to those kinds of decisions,

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Speaker 1: it didn't. It didn't. It wasn't a game break. It

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys for everybody, But wow, last night UM Washington

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field, they sit Jalen Hurts in a

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Speaker 1: one score game in the second half and seemingly tank

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Speaker 1: the season away and tank the matchup with Washington New

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Speaker 1: York's upsets NFL is upset. What did you guys think

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Speaker 1: about that, Rob, about the decision that Doug Peterson made

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Speaker 1: to sit down Jalen Hurts and what was kind of

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Speaker 1: a crazy turn of events in an NFC's battle. I

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Speaker 1: thought of you, Oh, I thought of you away. That

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Speaker 1: makes me feel great about myself because because like Peterson

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Speaker 1: said after the game that uh, you know, I was

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Speaker 1: coaching to win. I wanted to get sut Felt some

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Speaker 1: snaps for next season if they need him. Okay, fine,

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Speaker 1: you know, but look, he's getting ripped and it's it's

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Speaker 1: even even if it's just a perception of tanking, right,

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Speaker 1: that's the perception by by a lot of people. That's

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Speaker 1: why I thought of Kyle. That's why I thought of

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Speaker 1: Kyle because that's what team tank gets you. It gets

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Speaker 1: you a lot of a lot of criticism and and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of players on the Eagles didn't

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Speaker 1: like it either. I know Jason Kelsey's comments a few

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Speaker 1: weeks back about you play to win. It was basically

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Speaker 1: herm Edwards channeled through Jason Kelsey. Heck and so uh

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Speaker 1: it was just wild. I mean, Collinsworth and al Michaels

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Speaker 1: didn't know what to say. No, I mean they literally

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Speaker 1: didn't know what to say. They sounded beside themselves, both

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Speaker 1: muff Well, Dougie Pee. What he did, man, that should

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Speaker 1: be against the law man, And I'm just happy. I'm

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Speaker 1: just happy it wasn't us last night, you know, wanting

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Speaker 1: these series to get a win, I would have walked

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Speaker 1: to Philly. Man. I couldn't. I just didn't. I really

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Speaker 1: did not believe that they did. And when it happened

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Speaker 1: in real time, I was just like, Wow, this is

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Speaker 1: this is criminal. How can you know? Get on Goodell,

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Speaker 1: get on line one, get you know, call this guy

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Speaker 1: and tell him, no, bro, you can't do this on

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Speaker 1: national television. And he did it. Cried two chills in

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Speaker 1: a bucket. I would never go compete for the Philadelphia Eagles,

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Speaker 1: never as a player. Had I had, I would still

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Speaker 1: be in the league and had an opportunity to go

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Speaker 1: play there, that would be a team that I would

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Speaker 1: not go play for simply because that that displayed yesterday

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Speaker 1: only time you would ever do that, as if you're

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Speaker 1: playing against like your little brother and you want to

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Speaker 1: build his confidence up, right, so you don't want to

785
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: hurt his feelings. So I guess what, you let him win, right,

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Speaker 1: I let you win today. Right. But the fact that

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Speaker 1: they sat, the fact that they sat nine at their

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Speaker 1: best players, the fact that they were in a competitive

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Speaker 1: game where Jalen Hurts was doing all right and they

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Speaker 1: guess what he had already scored and oh, by the way,

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Speaker 1: you're only down by three points. Oh let me pull

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Speaker 1: him out. Oh yeah, I just want to get this

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Speaker 1: guy some reps. B to the s if you want

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Speaker 1: to give him some reps, if you wanted to protect

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Speaker 1: all your players from next year, Jalen Hurts would have

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Speaker 1: never been in the game, player, would ever play, would

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Speaker 1: have never field. And that's what really shocked me was

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Speaker 1: that I think I said it during the week, like

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Speaker 1: if Carson Wentz isn't gonna play, then you need to

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Speaker 1: get every look at Jalen Hurts that you possibly can

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Speaker 1: for next season because there's a chance Carson Wentz they

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Speaker 1: maybe move on from him and if he's your guy,

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Speaker 1: which I think he probably will be, like, let him

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Speaker 1: get some reps and give him, let him continue to

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Speaker 1: build some confidence before before the season ends. I was

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Speaker 1: just shocking. So I want to preface this this opinion

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Speaker 1: of my own based off of the fact that I

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Speaker 1: don't agree that of what Doug Peterson did, I think

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Speaker 1: it was it was BS. I think it was something

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Speaker 1: that is spineless, if anything, from a good fore staff.

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Speaker 1: I don't agree with that at all. I will say,

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Speaker 1: though New York and the Giants fans that are upset,

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Speaker 1: and and everybody, even Giants players that are upset. I

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Speaker 1: know that sucks. It really does. It's not fun. However,

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Speaker 1: win more than six games. Don't put yourself in that

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Speaker 1: situation to have another team control your Deskinay, that's my thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean that I might not have said that same

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Speaker 1: thing with the Cowboys. I would have been just as upset.

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Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. Sports fandom is a thing. However,

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Speaker 1: win more than six games, then you can kind of

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Speaker 1: start whining a little bit more about a team. Tank Coyle,

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Speaker 1: I I agree, However, I think people are more angry

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Speaker 1: about the end. I don't. I don't obviously the Giants

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00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: are angry that they're not going to the playoffs. They're curious, right, obviously,

825
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: very very much. They should they should be. However, on

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Speaker 1: a on another level, I feel like they're actually more

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Speaker 1: angry about the integrity of the game. I agree. I agree.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's about everybody in this game. That's what anybody. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what's a football fan should be? Yeah, whether whether you

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Speaker 1: whether you have a good team or whether you have

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Speaker 1: an amazing team. Everybody's a freaking competitor in a league now, right,

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Speaker 1: whether you're whether you're swiping, or whether you're going on

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Speaker 1: about the next play. Everybody is a competitor, right, And

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Speaker 1: so that this was the least competitive thing that you

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Speaker 1: ever can do. And everybody understands that. At the same level,

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Speaker 1: everybody steps on this field has a respect of the

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Speaker 1: other man, no matter how good or bad you are,

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Speaker 1: simply because guess what, I know that you compete. You're

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Speaker 1: one of You're one of one percent, right, You're you're

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Speaker 1: one percent of one percent of the world as doing this.

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Speaker 1: So guess what, I know you're competitive? What that what

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Speaker 1: they just showed yesterday. I don't want any part of it.

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00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: What Colin first said at the end of the game,

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Speaker 1: I turned to my wife and I said, he's like

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Speaker 1: in my head right now. It was like a symphony

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Speaker 1: in my head when he when he said he said,

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Speaker 1: can you imagine kind of to your point, he could

848
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Speaker 1: you imagine if the Cowboys were in the Giant situation

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Speaker 1: last night? The conspiracy theories about how the Eagles just

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Speaker 1: didn't want the Cowboys to make the playoffs and all

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00:42:57,719 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: that is a little less with the Giants because that

852
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 1: the that rivalry is not quite the same, but that

853
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: was abundant. It would have been all over the place

854
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 1: if that was the case and the Cowboys were the

855
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: ones on the losing side of it. Now, we've got

856
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: had four minutes left in the show. I'll give you

857
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: guys four minutes. We're gonna go a little bit over. Sorry,

858
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Speaker 1: Chris Beam, you do fantastic work in the back. Uh.

859
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:20,919
Speaker 1: I want you to fix the Dallas Cowboys. And one

860
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: I want you to fix the Dallas Cowboys. What is

861
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: the biggest impact need for the Cowboys going into this offseason.

862
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with you, Isaiah on this one. Where

863
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: did the Cowboys start this offseason as to getting back

864
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: into contenders? In twenty twenty one. I think they got

865
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: they have to fix the defensive line. I think I

866
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: think our OFFICSI line gets healthy. But I think they

867
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 1: have to fix the interior defensive alignment. Uh, you have

868
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: to fix the interior defensive alignment. You need one more

869
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 1: linebacker and you need one more solid corner that honestly,

870
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: you need to get a shutdown corner. If you can

871
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: pick up a shutdown corner in free agency, I think

872
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 1: you'll be good. Um And obviously if we can get

873
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: some help at say but I think you work your

874
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: way up. You go d line, linebackers safety and get

875
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: corner safety. Em I say, I agree with everything that

876
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: you just said. For me, for the front office and

877
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 1: the coaches, I want these guys to go through an

878
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: unrelenting evaluation process with every player on this roster. They

879
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: have got to find their dogs. They've got to find them, right.

880
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:27,800
Speaker 1: They've got to find the guys that are going to

881
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: put it on the line and be dialed in each

882
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: and every game. Not the guys that's talking about I

883
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: don't play hard every snap, Not those guys. Right. They

884
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: need to find the guys in and this whole plug

885
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: and play mentality that any guy can be a part

886
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 1: of your you know, with our offensive line, you could

887
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: put anybody in there do your job. That's disrespectful, that's

888
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: disrespectful to the guys that were before them, because obviously

889
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: that don't work either, right, But they have to evaluate

890
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: these guys from top to bottom. Asks an organization. We

891
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:01,280
Speaker 1: have got to get back to playing winning football. However

892
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: we do that, right, however we do that. They you know,

893
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:07,959
Speaker 1: show Emma Smith running in Week eighteen in nineteen ninety

894
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: three with a bum shoulder, and you look at all

895
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: the names that are out there, but we don't have

896
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: a shadow of that talent right now. So get back

897
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: to and let's find and I know that it was

898
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 1: in the nineteen hundreds, but still we need to get

899
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:26,839
Speaker 1: back to our winning ways. Yeah, get Dak Prescott healthy. Ye,

900
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,240
Speaker 1: Dak gets healthy, and get him signed. Get him signed

901
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: because the salary cap is gonna loom over this offseason.

902
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,399
Speaker 1: You know, we don't the Cowboys don't know what it's

903
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: gonna be. They don't know right now what they have

904
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: to work with because of all the revenue laws due

905
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: to the pandemic. So you know, if he's franchised, it's

906
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,359
Speaker 1: like thirty eight million bucks if you get a long

907
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 1: if you get a long term deal done, I assume

908
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: you can probably structure in a way where that you

909
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: can lessen that a little bit. And that's I say

910
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: that because of what you guys said, like they need

911
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: help in a lot of spot, particularly on defense, and

912
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: I just wonder how much you know financial resources. They're

913
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: gonna have to really do that because of the strain

914
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: with the cap this year, so the draft is going

915
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 1: to be absolutely huge. And then what can you do

916
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: in free agency with with a little bit of wiggle room,

917
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: Because yeah, defensively, I think you point what Isaiah pointed to,

918
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 1: what Heck pointed to, a lot of spots have to

919
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: be looked at and addressed rob really quickly. What is

920
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: the date that the Cowboys can start talking again with

921
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. I believe it's once the season ends. Today

922
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 1: you can get back to the table now, Yeah, yeah,

923
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 1: because you can't. You can't date ends, you can't talk

924
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: until the season ends. So I believe that's the case. Yes, Okay,

925
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure I thought that was

926
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: the case, and I think you're correct on that one

927
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: as well. But I agree with heck, I think you

928
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 1: have to go through every single one of these players defense, offense,

929
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, and evaluate where they're part is, where their

930
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: mindset is going into this off season to find the

931
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: type of players that you need to be a contender.

932
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 1: Because I agree, we're not there yet. And you see

933
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 1: that six and ten. It's six and ten. There's no

934
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: way to dress it up and make it look like

935
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: anything better than what it is. But ten losses in

936
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: a season, double digits not there. We would have said

937
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: the same thing if it were seven to nine and

938
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 1: you somehow found a way into the NFC's playoffs or

939
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: at the NFL playoffs rather out of the NFC's fine,

940
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 1: but it's still a lot of lack of talent on

941
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: this roster, and I just hope the Cowboys go into

942
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: the off season with a clear eye view of where

943
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: they are talent wise, and hope they fix that just

944
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: overall whenever it comes to player evaluation. Anyways, that's going

945
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 1: to do it for us on talking Cowboys. But I

946
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 1: wanted to take take a moment and thank every single

947
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 1: one of you guys that have tuned in over this

948
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 1: entire season. You guys are fantastic. You guys are so

949
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: much fun and it makes our jobs fun. I mean,

950
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 1: we get up in the morning early and watch film

951
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,360
Speaker 1: and prepare for this show and all sorts of stuff,

952
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: and it's it's fun because we know what we're waiting

953
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: for whenever these shows comes or come around, and we

954
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: have a blast. We really do. And I mean I

955
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: want to thank you guys as well. Heckma, Rob, Isaiah, Chris.

956
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys are fantastic. Thank you for making

957
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: my job easier by being awesome yourselves. And it really

958
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: is a blast getting to work with you guys, And

959
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: I'm excited to go into the off season and we're

960
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: going to continue to fix this Cowboys roster together. Gentlemen,

961
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 1: we appreciate you, young Luke Skywalker. Yes, it's been a blast.

962
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: Let's do it, Mondays now going forward, Yes, sir, see Beasy,

963
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: thank you very much, See Beasy, And thank you guys

964
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: for letting me win the projections this year. Oh whatever whatever,

965
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: that's not officially done, so we'll give our final standing

966
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 1: next week. So we'll give our final standings next week

967
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: whenever the Monday night games stick around. But I think

968
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 1: you're out of that out when Isaiah, sorry, about you.

969
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: But well, guys, by the way, for those of you listening,

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00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: we are on Monday's eleven thirty. It'll be an hour

971
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: long show eleven thirty to twelve thirty starting next Monday.

972
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: But that's it for us this week on Talking Cowboys.

973
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: That's it for us in the twenty twenty season. Twenty

974
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Speaker 1: twenty one is here. Let's go win a Super Bowl

975
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. How about that, gentlemen, Let's go

976
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: on a run in the next season and figure things out.

977
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: There's a long way to go for it. But for

978
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: Chris Beam, for Rob Phillips, for heck Ma Harrison and

979
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,319
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand Back, I'm Kyle Yeoman's one final time saying

980
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: so long Here from Talking Cowboys, presented by Geico. This

981
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 1: has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and

982
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,439
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.